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Granted Patent B2
US 12,309,081 · App. 18/604,090 · Granted May 20, 2025

Switching schemes for repetitions of transport blocks

Inventors: Kai Xu (Great Falls, VA); Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, VA); Hua Zhou (Vienna, VA); Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA); Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, VA); Kyungmin Park (Vienna, VA)
Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
H04L5/0035H04L5/001H04L5/0039H04W36/0055H04W36/085H04W72/1273H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,309,081
App. No.
18/604,090
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless device receives an indication of a switching scheme for switching a first beam and a second beam over physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission occasions. The switching scheme is selected from a first switching scheme applying the first beam to a first PDSCH transmission occasion and the second beam to a second PDSCH transmission occasion and a second switching scheme applying the first beam to two first PDSCH transmission occasions and the second beam to two second PDSCH transmission occasions. The wireless device receives downlink control information indicating repetitions of a transport block (TB) via the PDSCH transmission occasions. The wireless device receives, based on the switching scheme, a first repetition of the repetitions of the TB with the first beam and a second repetition of the repetitions of the TB with the second beam.

Claims (53)

1. A wireless device comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless device to:

receive one or more radio resource configuration (RRC) messages comprising one or more configuration parameters indicating a switching scheme for switching a first beam and a second beam over physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission occasions, wherein the switching scheme is selected from:

a first switching scheme applying the first beam to a first PDSCH transmission occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions and applying the second beam to a second PDSCH transmission occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions; and

a second switching scheme applying the first beam to two first PDSCH transmission occasions of the PDSCH transmission occasions and applying the second beam to two second PDSCH transmission occasions of the PDSCH transmission occasions;

receive downlink control information indicating repetitions of a transport block (TB) via the PDSCH transmission occasions; and

receive, based on the switching scheme:

a first repetition of the repetitions of the TB with the first beam via one of the first PDSCH transmission occasion or the two first PDSCH transmission occasions; and

a second repetition of the repetitions of the TB with the second beam via one of the second PDSCH transmission occasion or the two second PDSCH transmission occasions.

2. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the switching scheme indicates a slot level interval for switching the first beam and the second beam over the PDSCH transmission occasions.

3. The wireless device of claim 2 , wherein the slot level interval comprises one or more contiguous slots.

4. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the switching scheme indicates an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol level interval for switching the first beam and the second beam over the PDSCH transmission occasions.

5. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein:

the PDSCH transmission occasions include one or more contiguous PDSCH transmission occasions; and

the switching scheme indicates a time interval for switching the first beam and the second beam over the one or more contiguous PDSCH transmission occasions.

6. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein:

the PDSCH transmission occasions include one or more contiguous PDSCH transmission occasions; and

the switching scheme indicates a time interval for switching the first beam and the second beam over a number of the one or more contiguous PDSCH transmission occasions.

7. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein each of the PDSCH transmission occasions comprises at least one redundancy version (RV) of the TB.

8. The wireless device of claim 1 , further comprising decoding the TB based on the first repetition and the second repetition.

9. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the first beam and the second beam are switched over every occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions.

10. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the first beam and the second beam are switched over every other occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions.

11. A base station comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the base station to:

transmit one or more radio resource configuration (RRC) messages comprising one or more configuration parameters indicating a switching scheme for switching a first beam and a second beam over physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission occasions, wherein the switching scheme is selected from:

a first switching scheme applying the first beam to a first PDSCH transmission occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions and applying the second beam to a second PDSCH transmission occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions; and

a second switching scheme applying the first beam to two first PDSCH transmission occasions of the PDSCH transmission occasions and applying the second beam to two second PDSCH transmission occasions of the PDSCH transmission occasions;

transmit downlink control information indicating repetitions of a transport block (TB) via the PDSCH transmission occasions; and

transmit, based on the switching scheme:

a first repetition of the repetitions of the TB with the first beam via one of the first PDSCH transmission occasion or the two first PDSCH transmission occasions; and

a second repetition of the repetitions of the TB with the second beam via one of the second PDSCH transmission occasion or the two second PDSCH transmission occasions.

12. The base station of claim 11 , wherein the switching scheme indicates a slot level interval for switching the first beam and the second beam over the PDSCH transmission occasions.

13. The base station of claim 12 , wherein the slot level interval comprises one or more contiguous slots.

14. The base station of claim 11 , wherein the switching scheme indicates an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol level interval for switching the first beam and the second beam over the PDSCH transmission occasions.

15. The base station of claim 11 , wherein:

the PDSCH transmission occasions include one or more contiguous PDSCH transmission occasions; and

the switching scheme indicates a time interval for switching the first beam and the second beam over the one or more contiguous PDSCH transmission occasions.

16. The base station of claim 11 , wherein:

the PDSCH transmission occasions include one or more contiguous PDSCH transmission occasions; and

the switching scheme indicates a time interval for switching the first beam and the second beam over a number of the one or more contiguous PDSCH transmission occasions.

17. The base station of claim 11 , wherein each of the PDSCH transmission occasions comprises at least one redundancy version (RV) of the TB.

18. The base station of claim 11 , wherein the first beam and the second beam are switched over every occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions.

19. The base station of claim 11 , wherein the first beam and the second beam are switched over every other occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a wireless device, cause the wireless device to:

receive one or more radio resource configuration (RRC) messages comprising one or more configuration parameters indicating a switching scheme for switching a first beam and a second beam over physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission occasions, wherein the switching scheme is selected from:

a first switching scheme applying the first beam to a first PDSCH transmission occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions and applying the second beam to a second PDSCH transmission occasion of the PDSCH transmission occasions; and

a second switching scheme applying the first beam to two first PDSCH transmission occasions of the PDSCH transmission occasions and applying the second beam to two second PDSCH transmission occasions of the PDSCH transmission occasions;

receive downlink control information indicating repetitions of a transport block (TB) via the PDSCH transmission occasions; and

receive, based on the switching scheme:

a first repetition of the repetitions of the TB with the first beam via one of the first PDSCH transmission occasion or the two first PDSCH transmission occasions; and

a second repetition of the repetitions of the TB with the second beam via one of the second PDSCH transmission occasion or the two second PDSCH transmission occasions.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 4, 2024
From: XU, KAI; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; ZHOU, HUA; BABAEI, ALIREZA; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; CIRIK, ALI CAGATAY; PARK, KYUNGMIN
To: OFINNO, LLC
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Continuity (4)
Continuation 17675657 · Feb 18, 2022
Continuation 16720492 · Dec 19, 2019
Provisional Application 62781901 · Dec 19, 2018
Related Publication 20240223325A1 · Jul 4, 2024
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